As of January, 2012, this site is no longer being updated, due to work and health issues

Changes On the Search Tools Site in 2000

See the Current Year ChangeList

Date	Changes
12/21	Add Site Server article on XML indexing.
12/20	Update Web Log. Update Conferences page.
12/19	Start Web Log. Update ht://Dig page with features list and format info. Add release to Google page. Minor updates to Search Examples page. Added Excalibur database feature and entry on db page.
12/18	Post updated News page, Default & Index pages. Update AltaVista sales contact link. Add MS Commerce Server to MondoSearch, Database, News, and Default/Index pages. Fix bad link in Copernic page.
12/13	Update PLWeb page. Update FreeFind page.
12/10	Add RightSearch page.
12/9	Update Inktomi Search Software with version 4 and security advisory info. Add affiliate fee links for FusionBot and NNGroup World Tour on Conferences page. Update IndexMySite page. Change name to Fluid Dynamics Search from Intermediate Search.
12/8	Update FreeFind page & entry in remote search pages choose, maintenance, results, start, and check. Change name from intraSearch to siteLevel and update pages, also remote pages. Add DeepSearch page. Update AltaVista Search page with November 2000 release info. Update redirect files and page names for Inktomi Search Software and Inktomi Hosted Search. Update database-search page.
12/7	Update consulting page. Remove past submission dates from Conferences page. Change name from Netscape Compass to iPlanet and update links. Add Bot2001 to Conferences page. Divide robot resources into Source Code and Consultants pages.
12/6	Update Searchbutton page. Update Atomz page with Enterprise info. Mark tools listings for SWISH-E / SWISH++ with NT icon. Start pages re.s@rch.suite albert popsearch Add MPS Info Server page. Mark Quadralay WebWorks-Search as discontinued Add DolphinSearch KnowledgeBox Add consultant to robots code page. Agent Perl bad links removed from perl tools page. Put in redirects for tools/java, tools/windows, tools/unix, tools/mac, etc.
12/5	Change name from UdmSearch to mnoGoSearch. Put Network Computing article into main page, default page, News page, ht://Dig page, mnoGoSearch, Inktomi Search, AltaVista Search, Excalibur RetrievalWare, Atomz Enterprise Search, Searchbutton Corporate, articles, reviews and overviews pages. Add XYZFind page and update XML Resources page (also add Tamino to that page) Add Copernic Aggregator page. Add Net.Sprint page
12/4	Make separate classifiers and classification tools pages. Add Twirlix page & entry on classification tools page. Add Sandy Bay Results Engine page. Update Overviews page. Add Mercado IntuiFind product page Add TEC-IMS product page Start NXT Search Engine page
11/29	Minor updates to robot checklist. Minor updates to relative link test index page.
11/27	Update PicoSearch info and remote search review. Update SearchButton pricing. Update Conferences pages.
11/10	Add special XML Test section. Start FizzyLab Relevator page.
11/7	Update Conferences page. Update News & Index pages with MondoSearch and Netscape Compass info. Fix form on MondoSearch page and the search page, also add 4.0 features. Add ClickZ article to Overviews.
11/6	Update surveys page and the Late 2000 SearchTools Survey Result. Add MP3 info to IndexMySite page. Fix Harvest URL. Improve context of robots-sims page. Add iPlanet link to Compass page. Remove all "new" links from last time.
10/25	Take "Intranet" out of the AltaVista Search title and meta description tag. Remove extra "E" from CNIDR in Isearch meta description tag. Add meta description tag to inQuery page.
10/16	Fix bad link on Alkaline page Add master.com examples on Webinator page. Remove submit button name attribute in Phantom form on index page so it works now (thanks to Christopher Roth).
10/2	Update remote search services review. Update Searchbutton page. Fix form in IndexMySite page. Update search page (also removed NetCreations Pinpoint as it's obsolete). Update Excalibur RetrievalWare page. Update dtSearch page. Update Alkaline Fix bad links on site page, links, articles, overviews, consulting, site, bio, etc. Remove inaccessible links from inMagic/Lycos, AltaVista Search, Excite, Microsoft Index Server 1.0, Open Text LiveLink Search 6.0.5, Verity Fix bad link to FatBrain on the Visualization page.
9/29	Divided nomatches out into search failures and no-matches guide. More on news page.
9/28	Forrester report on overviews page & news page.
9/27	Making progress on news page. New no-matches guide page.
9/26	Updated Google page and added it to remote search services review. Updated Searchbutton page. Updated IndexMySite page and remote search services review. Add ACIA to information architecture page. Add Aurweb as per request Warnings on Netscape Compass and Excite for Web Servers - no longer being updated Update Webinator page with Master.com information. Add CFP for XML & IR issue of Jasis.
9/25	Add intro & WWW9 proceedings to Info Retrieval page. Update conferences page. Update Ultraseek (now Inktomi Search Software) text and links throughout site.
9/22	Update WebCat & Isearch pages. Rearrange JavaScript tests and add JavaScript Extras page.
9/21	Add Webrom and CD icon for CD & DVD indexing Update PDF WebSearch and dtSearch, Alkaline, ASTAWare SearchKey Add FusionBot remote service Update Phantom Add ShareWire SiteSearch Ultraseek change name to Inktomi Search Software, also Win2000 compatible, add to main page. Add Emily to XML resource page. Update interMedia page. Add Database Search page. Add SeekIt Site Search page. Update WebGlimpse page.
9/20	SearchUK now Searchengine.com SiteSearch, with much new info. Add Klarity to classifiers page. Update PDF page with new links and icons. New articles for Atomz, MondoSearch, update PicoSearch page. New overviews and reviews
9/19	Add RuterSearch Perl script (nice features) Add URLPortfolio to Classifiers page. Add "NetCreations" to Pinpoint remote service name and update references. Add POPSearch JavaScript search engine. Updated Onix & PDF info. Added UdmSearch to listings (how did I miss that before?). Add Datagold engine. Add graphic icons for Remote Search Service and Code Libraries Update other icon names. Update survey results page. Add spamtrap email address.  Fix error & noaccess page. Add Eureka search tool.
9/18	Fix bad links in depth test files.
9/16	Add SIMS robots presentations page (because some people were looking for it) Add index page for meetings folder. Fixed bad link in PDFWebSearch page.
9/12	Add article to Verity page. Updated Excalibur RetrievalWare WebExpress page. Updated Onix platforms in code libraries page. Updated URL for Platt article in overviews page. Updated the About Us and Consultant Bio pages. Started adding Info Doors info to the Visualization page. Spellchecked the Info Architecture page. Meta desc. and spelling on XML Resources page.
8/25	Added articles to AltaVista page. Added Wonnacott article to overviews page.
8/10	Updated Searchbutton info on Remote Search Checking Links, Remote Search Test Index (also fixed page title & added Atomz info), Customizing Results Pages, Search Results List Items (also fixed table size), Choosing Service (also fixed title tag).
7/7	Updated crawl-it page, added to search page.
7/6	Added Teleport Dataplex to News page. Added PDF WebSearch page, updated PDF page. Added Pallman book to Robots page. Updated Verity page with Portal One info.
6/29	Added Unicode conf to conferences page. Update Yahoo links on the Links page. Updated FAST page and news page.
6/28	Added crawl-it page.
6/19	Updated News page. Updated AltaVista, Ultraseek, Webinator, Atomz, PicoSearch, Microsoft Index Server according to news. Updated Search page. Updated Phantom page, Search page, main page and Phantom interface.
6/15	Updated Conferences page.
3/11	Fixed links: Magnifi Muscat Open Text Searchbutton MS Index Server. SearchKey. Verity. Conferences. Training. Overviews. Classification Tools Intranets XML XML Resources Information Retrieval Distributed Indexing Knowledge Management Web-Wide Search
3/10	Removed bad link on Atomz page. Updated product link on Lotus Domino Search page. Fixed bad link on Excalibur page. Removed bad link on dtSearch page. Changed product link on Extense page. Changed product info link on Fast Search page. Changed Findex name to Onix & updated links. Fixed product info link on Inquizit page. Remove broken link on inXight page.
3/9	Updated SiteMiner page with new features. Added source code correction to AltaVista page. Fixed bad links in test.txt page. Added Internet Librarian to Conferences page. Added fxgrep to XML Resources page. Added webmonkey article to Overviews page. Fixed bad links in Relevance Ranking Test index page. Added Open Muscat Code Library page. Added Robots Source Code & Consultants page. Added CLEF to Info Retrieval page Added ECDL to Conferences page.
3/8	Added WebMerger page. Added searchUK page. Updated DocFather and PicoSearch pages. Added Hafner review to Compass, ht://Dig and PLWeb pages and to Reviews page. Added FluffySearch page. Added Oracle interMedia page. Added Search-It to Search Examples page. Added consultant & Xneedle to PLWeb page. Updated EWS page. Added SSServer page. Added Hubat to Classifiers page. Updated Atomz page with new features.
3/6	Set this page to "noindex" Added CGISearch page. Added text search article to Info Retrieval page. Added WinMag article to Overviews page. Added portal release to Searchbutton page. Added InfoDesign, OZCHI, Extreme Markup, Evaluation to Conferences page. Added Cognitive Strategies paper to Info Retrieval and UI pages. Added What People Search For link to UI page. Added URLs with unusual characters section to test suite. Added new review to Ultraseek page. Added Dublin Core - RDF link to MetaData page. Added new DioWeb page.
3/4	added UK survey to Surveys page. Added bibliography to Classification page. Added Meta Matters site to MetaData page. Added UdmSearch page. Added repository article & XML Query Requirements to the XML Resources page. New examples for MondoSearch. Added Unicode & IV 2000 to Conferences page. Added press release to AltaVista page. Added Oracle interMedia page.
3/3	Added 1979 book, Information Processing & Management Journal, evaluation workshop proceedings, Clever article to Info Retrieval page, separated sites from books and articles. Added Webbot to Robots page. Updated Harvest page. Added Xerox DocuShare to KM page. Updated Fulcrum (Hummingbird) page. Extended the Registry section significantly and Added Xdex to the XML Resources page. Updated Virage page. Added site Search 2 page. Added InformationWeek article to Overviews page. Updated Conferences page. Added RDF Tutorial to MetaData page. Added examples to the PLWeb page Added ODARS4Search page. Fixed News pages for 2000.
2/22	Added NetMind Search-It link. Added review article to list. Added NLP book to Info Retrieval page. Added SearchButton to Tools listing (oops)
1/24	Updated conferences page. Updated XML-Resources page. Added Readware to Classifiers page. Added Usability course to User Interface page.
1/22	Updated conferences page.

For earlier changes to the site, see the 1999 Change List and the 1998 Change List